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The Morning SunMon, 19 Mar 2018 23:47:18 -040060Energy Secretary Rick Perry last week called out a little-known energy technology incubator as one of the reasons the department "has had and is having such a profound impact on American lives."

At the annual summit for the department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy last Wednesday, Perry said the technology born in the nursery for energy startups is "impressive" and "simply a preview of our possibilities.

]]>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:55:00 -0400201803191414182018-03-19T22:55:00-04:002018-03-19T14:14:18-04:00The millions of merchants who sell products on Amazon.com Inc. have long craved more leverage over their powerful benefactor. Now some are creating a trade association in the hopes that a unified voice will force Amazon to take them more seriously.

Organizers began pitching fellow merchants on the Online Merchants Guild last week at the Prosper Show, an annual Las Vegas conference that drew 1,900 Amazon sellers.

A new childcare center could be coming to Gratiot County as early as next year.

The Children's Discovery Academy is looking to be a year-round option for parents to drop off their children so they are watched before and after school, and during the summer months, according to Samantha Mitchell, the organization's secretary.

]]>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 05:00:00 -0400201803191716462018-03-19T05:00:00-04:002018-03-19T17:16:46-04:00For years, abortion-rights advocates have used the First Amendment as a weapon to challenge laws that require doctors to display an ultrasound or describe a fetus in detail to a patient.

Now it's the anti-abortion side that says its speech rights are being violated.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on a California law that forces licensed pregnancy-counseling clinics that promote childbirth as an alternative to tell patients they might be eligible for free or discounted abortions.

Police in the city of Tempe said Monday that the vehicle was in autonomous mode with an operator behind the wheel when the woman walking outside of a crosswalk was hit.

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]]>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:03:00 -0400201803191449112018-03-19T15:03:00-04:002018-03-19T14:49:11-04:00WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump kept up his attack on the escalating Russia investigation, insisting in a new tweet Monday that it was "a total WITCH HUNT with massive conflicts of interest!" The comment came a day after a top White House lawyer tried to calm speculation that the president was considering firing the special counsel leading the probe.]]>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:45:30 -0400201803191445302018-03-19T14:45:30-04:002018-03-19T14:45:30-04:00LANSING (AP) - Michigan's largest labor union is endorsing Gretchen Whitmer for governor.

The United Auto Workers, which represents 385,000 active members and retirees in the state, announced the endorsement Monday at its international headquarters in Detroit. Whitmer, a former legislative leader, is among four main Democrats seeking the nomination in August's primary election.

]]>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:44:22 -0400201803191445032018-03-19T14:44:22-04:002018-03-19T14:45:03-04:00Michigan shipwreck hunters have found the remains of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1873 during a storm.

The Lizzie Throop was found in 280 feet (85 meters) of water along western Michigan's coastline some 15 miles (25 kilometers) northwest of the city of South Haven, the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association announced this past week.

]]>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:51:56 -0400201803191351562018-03-19T13:51:56-04:002018-03-19T13:51:56-04:00AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Authorities have called on the person or people behind the bombings in Austin, Texas, to reach out to the police to let them know why they're setting off the explosives.

Police Chief Brian Manley said Monday that it's too soon to say whether Sunday night's bombing that injured two men could have been a response to his call for those behind the bombings to reach out.

Alcohol and speed are thought to be factors in an early Sunday morning one-car crash in Gratiot County that sent a driver and a passenger to a hospital.

A 25-year-old Alma woman who police believe was the driver was heading west on Polk Road at a high rate of speed at around 4 a.m. when she lost control of her car and rolled several times, said Gratiot County Sheriff Doug Wright.

Students across the country are protesting gun violence and advocating gun reform with The March for Our Lives on Friday. Central Michigan University students organized a local march, but they are taking a different approach to their event.

The students arranging the march are trying to get people from both sides of the debate to come and share their views during the march.

]]>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:28:42 -0400201803191228422018-03-19T12:28:42-04:002018-03-19T12:28:42-04:00In the weeks since Amy Yu disappeared, the 16-year-old's family has replayed eight years of warning signs about the intensifying relationship between the high school student and the 45-year-old father of four with whom she fled to Mexico.

Police say the girl and her "secret boyfriend," Kevin Esterly, covertly ran away to the resort town of Playa del Carmen together this month.